Display

Page display options

Show white space between pages in Print Layout view - Select this option to display the top and bottom margins of the page, including the content of headers and footers.
Show highlighter marks - Select this option to display highlighted text on the screen and in printed documents.
Show document tooltips on hover - Select this option to display information such as URLs and reviewers' comments in yellow pop-up boxes. The tooltips appear when you rest your mouse pointer on a hyperlink, comment reference mark, or similar content.

Always show these formatting marks on the screen

Tab characters - Select this option to display tab characters as arrows.
Spaces - Select this option to display spaces between words as dots.
Paragraph marks - Select this option to display ends of paragraphs with the paragraph symbol. You can quickly turn this option on or off by clicking Show/Hide ? in the Paragraph group of the Home tab.
Hidden text - Select this option to display a dotted line under text that is formatted as hidden.
Optional hyphens - Select this option to display hyphens that indicate where to divide a word at the end of a line. Optional hyphens are not printed unless a word actually breaks at the end of a line. When a word breaks at the end of the line, the optional hyphen is printed as a regular hyphen.
Object anchors - Select this option to display objects anchors, which indicate that an object is attached to a specific paragraph.
Show all formatting marks - Select this option to display all the formatting characters that are listed in the Always show these formatting marks on the screen section, whether or not the check box associated with each one is selected. When you turn this option off, only the formatting characters indicated by the selected check boxes in the Always show these formatting marks on the screen section are displayed.

Printing options

Print drawings created in Word - Select this option to print all drawing objects, such as shapes and text boxes. Clearing this check box may speed your printing process because Word prints a blank box in place of each drawing object.
Print background colors and images - Select this option to print all background colors and images. Clearing this check box may speed your printing process.
Print document properties - Select this option to print the document's summary information on a separate page after the document is printed. Word stores summary information on the Document Information Panel.
Print hidden text - Select this option to print all text that has been formatted as hidden. Word does not print the dotted underline that appears under the hidden text on the screen.
Update fields before printing - Select this option to update all the fields in a document before you print it.
Update linked data before printing - Select this option to update all linked information in a document before you print it.